Why all settings lost from turning off power to Airport Express?

QUERY: Am I required to keep the Airport Express unit powered continuously forever after now, or have to re-enter all the network names and passwords every time the power is turned off?
I just bought Airport Express station a few weeks back. It's downstairs next to the cable modem and my 7-year-old iMac purchased in 2004, which has no wireless capability. There is NO cable outlet OR telephone line upstairs near brand new iMac, which is WHY I BOUGHT THE AIRPORT EXPRESS; I didn't want to string a 100-foot ethernet cable upstairs.
Monday a very patient Apple tech guy talked me through getting it set up, which involved my racing up & down the stairs, re-setting the unit to clear my unsuccessful data inputs from the previous week, watching and waiting for the unit amber light to turn green, then in-putting the new data. With the tech guy's help, it worked fine.
Since the unit gets HOT while plugged in to the socket, I switched off the power strip. (My disabled brother and I live together, and we have to share a single connection to the internet. I'm away from home during the day, so this has worked fine when we used ethernet cables and a hub seven years ago.)
BUT now the very first time I've powered up the Airport Express since it was working FINE, it's NOT working. Amber light just blinks slowly forever.
I'm posting this from my SEVEN-YEAR-OLD iMac, 'cause the Airport Express evidently needs to be reset. Since following the instructions the FIRST time DID NOT WORK, I wanted to find out if powering down the Airport CAUSED the data to evaporate, before calling Apple again. Hey! I've been working with Macs, teaching computer graphics and working in interactive games for 3 decades! But clearly, there are GAPS in my understanding.
Thanks for any comments.
- David March, crazed animator & fiddler
www.davidmarch.org

try restarting all of them

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